We're on the home stretch, and perhaps it's a stretch to think we can get this one done by midnight today or is it?

Let's go for the green! We can do this if we all pull together! It's always vitally important to complete our FReepathons within 2 months.

If we can get within striking distance, we can call in musicman to 'put his baby to bed.'!

Please everyone, if you haven't yet made your donation, today is the ideal time to support your beloved Free Republic!

We all love coming to Free Republic every day, so please know that know that EVERY Donation counts, no matter the amount and that EVERY Donation is truly and greatly appreciated!

$5, $10, $20, $50, $100 or more, EVERY Donation Keeps FR Alive!

Our New Monthly Donor count is sort of stuck at 48, including 4 New $1-a-Day Donors! We have 5 wonderful, fabulous, awesome and very generous FReeper Sponsors, (Tijeras_Slim, upchuck, somebody, OwenKellogg & Chode) who have already pledged $10.00 for EVERY New Monthly Donor, so PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE seriously consider signing up to Donate Monthly if you possibly and reliably can! Free Republic will be completely appreciative and you will be a hero!

Were half of you all, our wonderful, loyal, regular users to reliably donate $5, $10, $20 or $30 Monthly, this FReepathon and all FReepathons would be events of the past.

PLEASE give serious consideration to Donating Monthly!

We also have 175 Donations of $100.00 or more, as per our 300 Club and I-be-TC's original Challenge! FReeper I_be_TC donates $100 per quarter and challenges 300 other FReepers to do the same. If you donate $100 or more per quarter, please let Jim know, so we can add your name to the 300 Club Roster! If we can get 300 members sending in a $100 or more per quarter, our fundraisers will run much faster!

In 2009, Barack Obama reportedly called members of the Tea Party "teabaggers." It turns out that our fourth greatest president, /s, (first in so many things), may have been the first "teabagger" himself, as seen in the 1997 photograph above. Yes, that really is Barack Obama wearing a regimental coat and carrying a tricorn hat in his hand. And that flag behind him really is a Gadsden flag, with its serpent and its "Don't Tread On Me" slogan. You may want to let all of this sink in a bit, especially if you're a Tea Party-bashing progressive.

When you sign up to be a NEW MONTHLY DONOR, very generous FReepers Sponsors are donating $10.00 to FR!!!

Thank you so much, Generous FReeper Sponsors!

(Tijeras_Slim x 2, upchuck, somebody, OwenKellogg x 2 & Chode)!!!

During all four FReepathons in Year 2013, TWO HUNDRED & FIFTY-FIVE (255) FReepers signed up to Donate Monthly, and that meant that our very generous FReeper Sponsors DONATED an extra $2,555.00 to our beloved FR!!!

WOW!

We're NOW about to complete Round #5 of our NEW MONTHLY DONOR campaign for our 1st Quarter FReepathon!!!!!

"The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission.

We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."

~George Washington

Address to the Continental Army before the Battle of Long Island (27 August 1776)

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posted on 02/28/2014 5:31:08 AM PST
by trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)

Per FReeper I_be_tc's 300/100 challenge, FR is looking for 300 loyal FReepers to donate $100 or more per quarter. By contributing at least $100 per quarter or $400 per year to Free Republic, you may become a member of the "300 Club."

You may contribute any combination of monthly and/or one-time contributions by Credit Card, Mail-In Check, Money Order or PayPal to reach this goal.

DONOR NAMES ARE ADDED TO THIS LIST ONLY BY REQUEST OF THE DONOR.

Please contact Jim Robinson if youre a $100 per quarter Donor and would like your name to appear on this List! Thanks very much and thank you for your loyal support of Free Republic!

" And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role."

~Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

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posted on 02/28/2014 6:18:33 AM PST
by trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)

"Remember us." As simple an order as a king can give. "Remember why we died." For he did not wish tribute, nor song, nor monuments nor poems of war and valor. His wish was simple. "Remember us," he said to me. That was his hope, should any free soul come across that place, in all the countless centuries yet to be. May all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones, "Go tell the Spartans, passerby, that here by Spartan law, we lie."

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posted on 02/28/2014 6:24:35 AM PST
by trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)

"In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect to be treated badly. Nonetheless, they must stand undaunted. That is required. And, that should be expected.

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